So Paolo Di Canio has made his usual low-key start to life at Sunderland. There's a lengthy interview with Di Canio in my 2002 book
West Ham Irons in the Soul, still available on Kindle, where he discusses his eccentric, if not all stations to Barking, political views. He's very insistent that he's not a racist and claims that gay people, women, yellow and black people are all welcome round at his gaff. PDC denies being a fascist or "fan of Mussolini", though he does claim that Mussolini was "a true nationalist" and claims that the media misinterpreted his views as a "polemic". Not sure if Neil Ruddock, John Moncur and co would ever have used the word 'polemic' in their dressing room banter… Di Canio also reflects on travelling on the London Underground to Chigwell and controversially claims that he hasn't tried the cuisine in Ken's Cafe. Oh and the book also has his thoughts on piranah fish...
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Strange how this wasn't much of a story when he was at Swindon, even though the local GMB union withdrew support from the club, but then hit the front pages when he went to Sunderland. He did not help himself by refusing to discuss it at first; he should have issued a categorical denial. If it is untrue.
Off topic, seems our game at Anfield is not live on Sky - bumped for the Johnstone's Paint Trophy Final (where last year I saw PDC crouching in anguish outside his technical area for 90 minutes as Swindon lost to Chesterfield).
So, our game was 3pm on the Saturday, but Sky moved it to 1.30 Sunday cos they wanted to show it live. Much later, the Spurs game with Everton was moved to Sunday cos of the Europa League - so they decide to show that instead. Sky - the people who hate real football fans....
Yes, how to make it as inconvenient as possible for fans. Trevor Sinclair had it about right when he claimed PDC was "mad as a hatter" today. The Roman salute at Lazio was indefensible but at least he is now claiming not to be a fascist... though you wonder why Sunderland didn't realise it would be hugely controversial appointing him.
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